Pleurothallis binotii Regel 1880 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859 Photo by Sylvio Rodrigues Pereira and the Sylvio Orquideas Website
Photo by Jay Pfahl.
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Common Name Binot's Pleurothallis [Brazilian Orchid Grower and Collector 1800's]
Flower Size 3/16" [.94 cm]
Found in the Rio de Janiero area of Brazil in humid primary forests at elevations of 300 to 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, warm cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped for half their lenghth by 3 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, leatheryl conduplicate, shiny olive-green, ovate, slightly recurved apically leaf that blooms in the late summer and fall on 1 to 2, 4 to 5.6” [10 to 14 cm] long, to 9 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe
Synonyms Acianthera binotii (Regel) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Pleurothallis ecallosa Barb.Rodr. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 2 Luer 1986; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera binotii; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #12 2017 as Acianthera binotii photo fide;
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